from the South-east Region of Equatorial Africa. 459 



it is of a dull-brown colour^ the sides and under part being the 

 palest, and has two irregular yellowish-white spots on each side 

 of its posterior half, and three others of the same hue disposed 

 in a longitudinal row above the spinners : the sexual organs are 

 well developed, rather prominent, and of a dark reddish-brown 

 colour, that of the spinners being pale brown. 



The only specimen of this species comprised in the collection 

 was an adult female. 



Genus Pholcus, Walck. 



Pholcus pallidus. 



Pholcus pallidus, Blackw. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. i. p. 433, 

 and vol. viii. p. 444. 



A single female of this species was included in the collection. 

 Both sexes of Pholcus pallidus have been received from Pernam- 

 buco. 



Genus Artema, Walck. 



Artema convexa. 

 Artema convexa, Blackw., Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. ii. p. 332. 



Length of the female f of an inch ; length of the cephalo- 

 thorax ^, breadth ^ ; breadth of the abdomen ^ ; length of an 

 anterior leg 2^^ ; length of a leg of the third pair ly'g . 



The sexes are similar in colour; but the male, though the 

 smaller, has longer legs, an anterior one measuring 2-^-^ inches. 

 The falces are short and irregular in figure, being hollowed on 

 the inner side, and having a strongly arched, tuberculated, dark- 

 brown ridge in front, which terminates in a point ; below the 

 ridge they are of a brownish-red hue, and their extremity is 

 armed with a short, slightly curved fang, and a single, pointed 

 tooth on the inner surface. The palpi are glossy, very robust, 

 and their prevailing colour is brownish-yellow, the axillary joint, 

 the base and extremity of the humeral joint, the remarkably 

 short cubital joint, the inferior surface and extremity of the 

 radial joint, and the entire digital joint having a dark-brown 

 hue tinged with red ; the axillary joint is short, and produced 

 at its extremity, on the under side ; the humeral joint is greatly 

 dilated, convex on the upper side, with a ])ointed protuberance 

 at its base, on the outer side ; the radial joint is nearly hemi- 

 spherical; and the digital joint is small, with a large apophysis 

 on its outer side of a dark-brown colour tinged with red ; this 

 apophysis has a proniinent process near its base, on the upper 

 side, and its broad, somewhat depressed extremity is irregular in 

 form ; the palpal organs, which are connected with the inferior 

 surface of the digital joint, are subglobose, glossy, of a brownish- 

 yellow hue, and project from their outer side a large curved 



